International Horn Symposium coming to Brisbane

Pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment avail­able for music teachers

The 42nd Inter­na­tional Horn Sym­posium is com­ing to Bris­bane. The Open Con­ser­vat­orium at Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, with the gen­er­ous assist­ance of Allan’s Music Aus­tralia, is offer­ing the Allan’s Music 42nd Inter­na­tional Horn Sym­posium Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram to stu­dents and teach­ers. There are 20 stu­dent schol­ar­ships for the Horn Ensemble Day on the 22nd of July and 5 teacher schol­ar­ships for either the PD day on Tues­day 20th of July or the Horn Ensemble Day on the 22nd.

Click here for a copy of the pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment oppor­tun­it­ies — PD options Horn Symp.

Schol­ar­ships will be alloc­ated on an email response date to me at this email address. Please con­sider the bene­fits of this and the lim­ited num­ber avail­able. They will be alloc­ated across schools to share the bene­fit so be aware of that in the num­ber of stu­dents you nom­in­ate — that is, the schol­ar­ships will not be exhausted by one or two schools who email instantly with a large list of names, they will be shared as widely as possible.

To register for this schol­ar­ship you must send to me at this email address:

Name
Address
Phone num­ber
Email address
School name and address

One for each sep­ar­ate nomination

Once the schol­ar­ships are exhausted, regis­tra­tions can be made dir­ectly through Armin Terzer (admin1@ihs42brisbane.com). School excur­sion and pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment (PD) pack­ages on offer:

School excur­sion: $50 per stu­dent / $100 per teacher for Thursday, July 22
Pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment: $100 for Tues­day, July 20 or Thursday, July 22

Pay­ment options avail­able are dir­ect bank trans­fer or credit card.

Please see the attached event sched­ules and pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment options for fur­ther inform­a­tion, or visit the IHS42 web­site (www.ihs42brisbane.com). The inform­a­tion on PD shows options across vari­ous days and it might be worth while con­sid­er­ing regis­ter­ing for the whole con­fer­ence for those interested.

For ques­tions and/or regis­tra­tion, please con­tact Armin.

This is a mar­vel­lous oppor­tun­ity for the young horn play­ers and the horn teach­ers of  Queens­land to access some of the world’s finest horn play­ers and the Open Con­ser­vat­orium acknow­ledges the sup­port of Allan’s Music in provid­ing the fin­an­cial aid to present them.

I look for­ward to your early response.

Best wishes

Ralph

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Ralph Hult­gren
Head, Open Con­ser­vat­orium
Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity
P.O. Box 3428 South Bank Queens­land 4101, Aus­tralia
140 Grey Street, South Bris­bane Queens­land 4101, Aus­tralia
Phone: (61 7) 3735 6253   Fax: (61 7) 3735 6366

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An evening with Johan de Meij, part 5

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This video was recor­ded on 31 March 2010 at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, and was organ­ised by the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land (ABODA QLD).

An evening with Johan de Meij, part 4

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This video was recor­ded on 31 March 2010 at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, and was organ­ised by the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land (ABODA QLD).

An evening with Johan de Meij, parts 2 & 3

On com­pos­ing easy music …

Acclaimed com­poser Johan de Meij talks about the dif­fi­culties asso­ci­ated with com­pos­ing music for begin­ning band and why he sticks to com­pos­ing high level works. This is part 2 in a series of videos recor­ded at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, on 31 March 2010 and organ­ised by the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land (ABODA QLD).

On writ­ing Extreme Make-over

Acclaimed com­poser Johan de Meij talks about some of the prob­lems in writ­ing his work, Extreme Make-over, the test piece for the 2005 European Cham­pi­on­ships. This video is part 3 in a series that was recor­ded on 31 March 2010 at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity. The even­ing was organ­ised by the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land (ABODA QLD).

An evening with Johan de Meij, part 1

In this first install­ment of videos from ABODA QLD’s Even­ing with Johan de Meij, the acclaimed com­poser tips his hat to music edu­cat­ors and relates a funny story about con­duct­ing kids from his own exper­i­ence. This video was recor­ded 31 March 2010 at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music and was organ­ised in part­ner­ship with the Open Con­ser­vat­orium, Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity and the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land (ABODA QLD). Stay tuned for more videos from the even­ing in the com­ing weeks.

An evening with Johan de Meij

 

ABODA QLD, in part­ner­ship with Open Con­ser­vat­orium, Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, is host­ing ‘An Even­ing with Johan de Meij’ on Wed­nes­day 31 March 2010. Enjoy a con­ver­sa­tion with Johan on top­ics ran­ging from com­pos­ing and con­duct­ing to music in gen­eral, and also have the oppor­tun­ity to chat and mingle with other mem­bers of our asso­ci­ation. The even­ing starts with a meet and greet from 7pm, fol­lowed by a present­a­tion by Johan de Meij. The even­ing will con­clude by 9.30pm. Com­pli­ment­ary cheese and a glass of wine will be served. A one-hour Pro­fes­sional Devel­op­ment cer­ti­fic­ate will be issued.

Venue: Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Board Room

Cost: $10.00 ABODA QLD members/$15.00 non-members. Lim­ited to first 40 paid respondents.

To register go to the Event Regis­tra­tion page.